Title

Authors

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-1993

Volume

26

Issue

2

Publication Title

PS: Political Science & Politics

First Page

235

Last Page

240

Abstract

We live in times when rights and obligations have become uncoupled. Individuals regard themselves almost exclusively as private persons with responsibilities only to family and job and yet possessing endless rights against a distant and alien state in relationship to which they think or themselves, at best, as watchdogs and clients and, at worst, as adversaries and victims. The idea of service to country or to the institutions by which rights and liberty are legitimized and sustained has fairly vanished.